The World’s First $2 Billion-Dollar Home

NationalEconomist.com ^

[drbasketball]

While visiting New York in 2005, Nita Ambani was in the spa at the Mandarin Oriental New York, overlooking Central Park. The contemporary Asian interiors struck her just so, and prompted her to inquire about the designer, Forbes reports.

Nita Ambani was no ordinary tourist. She is married to Mukesh Ambani, head of Mumbai-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries... Forbes estimated Ambani’s net worth at $43 billion in March.

[caver]

For $2 billion you would think that they could come up with something nicer than that. These filthy rich people have no taste. It’s their money though. Spend it any way you want to.

[Sacajaweau]

Who cares!!

[nmh]

Unimpressed too. No taste.

[CarrotAndStick]

From the outside, it looks like a shack :^)

World's Most Expensive House Costs A Lot

Mukesh Ambani, the fifth richest man in the world, is having a new house built in Mumbai. Mukesh made his money as head of Mumbai-based petrochemical company Reliance industries. His net worth is over $43 billion and he, his wife, and 3 kids currently live in a 22-story tower (the whole thing). You know, my girlfriend and I once lived in a Ford Festiva for 7 weeks. So why anybody needs a $2 billion, 550 foot high, 400,000 square foot home for five people is beyond me. I mean, we could have accommodated three more people if we had had a Taurus or some other mid-sized sedan. Hit the link to see some more pictures and a link to an in-depth article explaining all the crap inside, but I can't write about this anymore, it's just too frustrating. But you know what? While Mukesh may be rich in a monetary sense, my life is rich in tradition. Yep, traditionally I come home from work at six, drink eight beers and a pint of bourbon, eat whatever culinary abortion my wife has prepared, then pass out. And a tradition like that, Mukesh, is something money can't buy.

Several more renderings of the interior, and a link to the article, after the jump.

Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home [yahoofinance]

[ClearCase_guy]

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just spent $65M on a house in France. Now, to my way of think that is also too much to spend, but they got 1000 acres of french countryside, something like 35 bedrooms and a lot of beautiful old world charm. But if someone wants to 30x as much money for a tacky piece of excess, that’s their business.

[cerberus]

I’ll take a four bedroom that’s tastefully decorated.

[SolidWood]

Fugly. Looks like an Indian trying to recreate Naboo from Star Wars.

[True Republican Patriot]

I heard a rumor that B.O. HUSSEIN has put a bid in on this atrocity of a home for his intended Summer Black House. Once he leases the Capital like Rendell plans to lease the Turnpike, the “Commission” received will likewise fund the purchase.

[abb]

[6SJ7]

Yikes. The interior has a 1970’s Vegas ‘lounge lizard’ look.

[Hot Tabasco]

550 foot high, 400,000 square foot home

"Honey, have you seen the cat lately?"

[caver]

If I had that kind of money, I’d have something like the Biltmore Mansion. Now that is a house!

[silverleaf]

Mumbai people like the untouchables living andy dying in the streets and under bridges and scouring garbage for food and rags to sell probably care.

Don’t know what Hindus believe, but no way this lady would fit her camel through the eye of a needle to get into heaven!

[CarrotAndStick]

Hmm...

If I had 2 bil to spare, I'd use a fraction of it, to get me one of these:

The Lake Palace, Udaipur. Built: 1746.

[CarrotAndStick]

"...but no way this lady would fit her camel through the eye of a needle to get into heaven!"

What do you mean? That monstrosity, for all its ugliness, is probably going to provide a livelihood for hundreds of families from around. You are aware, aren't you, that comment of yours has 'Socialism' painted all over it?

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, it is their money, but in my humble opinion, the world has another buckassed naked emperor out there.

No accounting for some folks’ tastes...

[purpleraine]

Clinton library?

[abb]

Absolutely!

[silverleaf]

No, my comment does not have “socialism” written all over it unless the teachings of my Lord Jesus Christ can be called socialist. His quote was that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven.

Now I am rather flexible on what is a “rich man”- many people would consider my family as “rich”. We have worked hard, sacrificed, and have probably not given nearly enough away to help people who have so much less becasue of little or no fault of their own.

However, there is “rich” and there is selfish narcissim. imho.

While I support free markets and personal freedoms, I see this and call it as a monstrous selfish expenditure on a personal residence. That it should be in Mumbai, India - in the midst of one of humanity’s greatest pockets of human suffering - is beyond the pale. But the woman who commmissioned this monstrosity will be judged for her decisions by her own God, someday.